Has Iran Regained Its Reputation?

We all see and watch the "middle play" being played in the Middle East. And also the home-winning show of 'Pişekar' and 'Kavuklu' who perform their art in the middle of nowhere. The main actors of the play are 'Pişekar' Biden and 'Kavuklu' Bünyamin Netenyahu, whom the world calls 'Yeteryahu' and wishes him to go away. The setting is the Palestinian people who have been subjected to genocide for 191 days behind Gaza in the form of a burnt and destroyed screen. Oh, by the way, there are also the members of Israel's "War Cabinet" sitting on a low wicker chair in front of it. I say "members of the war cabinet" because one of the most important effects of this attack is that they have turned into "members of the security cabinet". However, the members of the "War Cabinet", inexplicably, did not allow themselves to be spoken to, they did not allow any action without tolerating any criticism, as if they were playing themselves and singing themselves. But dear readers, at least this issue has been clarified. In other words, let's emphasise the issue once again with the expression of Generation Z, the "War Cabinet" has been "out" and the "Security Cabinet" has been "in". This clearly symbolises a milestone. Because the night of 13/14 April, in a sense, also set back the theo-political positioning in the melhame-yi cubra environment where Iran is waiting for the Mahdi and Israel is waiting for the Messiah.

If you wish, let's take a minute-by-minute historical note from the Night of 13/14 April 2024. After the Iranian attack, on 14 April 2024 at 04.15 am, the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, activated a "triumvera", a "tripartite decision-making mechanism" as a "triumvera" of the executive branch in response to Iran's armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) attack. The Security Cabinet, consisting of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and main opposition leader Benny Gantz, was given full authority, and the arbitrariness of the war cabinet was in a sense put an end to. (1) In a sense, this transition from the "War Cabinet" to the "Security Cabinet" directly reflected the will of the Israeli people in a wise manner. In a broader sense, it can be said that this situation also marked a transition from a "theo-political" to a "secular" position. Through their representatives in the Parliament, the people of Israel were able to put a stop to the fundamentalist, fundamentalist religionists. In other words, the people of Israel have emphasised the importance of the "National Coalition" as reflected in the parliament, and have wisely shown the importance of the footsteps of the National Coalition in this tense environment without going into an election atmosphere. As a natural consequence of this important development, 38 minutes later, at 04.53 hours, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan stated that they had called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the Iranian air strikes against Israel. The UNSC announced that it would convene at 23.30, 24 hours after the attack, instead of the original 15.00. In fact, this situation has evolved into a transformation of Netanyahu's search for new infernos to save him from the Gaza failure, while at the same time consolidating and transforming his position as a victim state. 

The killing of three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps generals and four Iranian officers at the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus during the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Syria last week is, needless to say, a direct act of war on the international arena. This is why the Supreme Leader (Supreme Guide) Ayatollah Khamenei said that Israel would be "punished" and "regret this crime", while President Ibrahim Reisi said that the attack "will not go unanswered". It is clear that this Israeli attack has brought the Biden administration's policy of maintaining its commitment to Israel while preventing the conflict from escalating into a regional war to a dead end. (2) From another point of view, the "Telaviv Hawks" led by Netanyahu have directly targeted the US-Iranian consensus behind closed doors to avoid an escalation or regional war that would drag them into a direct confrontation at the point when things get out of control in parallel with the genocidal war in Gaza. In other words, it focussed on the apparent results of US covert contacts with Iran in terms of limiting the conflict. 

As a matter of historical perspective, it is worth recalling that Jimmy Carter, who was considered the most honest of all US presidents, was dealt the biggest blow of his life by the Iranian revolution. The Islamic Revolution in Iran deposed Carter and replaced him with Ronald Reagan, the King of Falcons. After the revolution, the students, led by Ahmad-i Nejat, later the Mayor of Tehran and President of the Republic, occupied the US Embassy and kept the embassy building under occupation for 444 days, as well as informing the world about the intrigues in the US mission. In the meantime, they also took the US Embassy staff hostage. President Jimmy Carter attempted to organise a limited operation to resolve the situation, but the helicopters of the intervention team were caught in a desert storm and crashed and the operation ended unsuccessfully. This situation has engraved in the memory of the "Black Hawk Down" that would later take place in Mogadishu, where a dead US soldier was dragged by his feet. This situation also determined Carter's fate. 

Saddam Hussein's support from the Sunni world, the Iranian side's prolongation of the war for eight years and Iran's determination to overthrow Saddam both triggered and deepened a regional polarisation, both politically and sectarian. The subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq reinforced and reinforced this polarisation. Even if Khomeini did not want to theoretically, he became the pole and the tip of the Cold War against the Islamic World. (3) 

Let us recall that US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger replaced the Sunni world with the USSR and weakened the integration and unification of the Sunni world to the greatest extent. The US's tacitly influencing Iranian influence, especially against Iraq, was openly criticised. In this context, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal, during his visit to the United States, claimed that the Americans presented this to Iran on a golden platter. Similar criticism came from King Abdullah II of Jordan. 

In capitals such as Madrid and Paris, Rafsanjani's team, the father of Iranian pragmatism, and Reagan's team, Father Bush (then head of the CIA), came to an agreement. Let us recall once again that the US and Iran have always co-operated in Afghanistan and Iraq. The invisible alliance and co-operation between Iran and the US against the Sunni world continued uninterruptedly. During 11 September, Iran became an invisible ally of the USA. "If it were not for us, the US would not have succeeded in Iraq and Afghanistan. "After the US invasion of Iraq, Baghdad Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad confirmed this and said, "Iran is the country that gained the most from the invasion. We cleared Iran's regional enemies and paved the way for it." In short, it must be said that the Great Satan America and Iran have secretly flirted in almost every period. They have never been enemies.

Although it is claimed that Moscow is taking advantage of the chaos in the Middle East to divert the West's attention and resources away from Ukraine, this conflict between Israel and Iran, which has turned into an orderly conflict, also evokes a domino effect if it turns into a wider war. To put it in capital letters, RUSSIA DOES NOT WANT WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND IRAN. 

I must say that the US support for Israel is not to prevent Israel from being harmed while it destroys Gaza with American weapons as it pleases. To put it more accurately, any support for Israel does not mean absolute harmony with Israel. The US support for Israel is to completely destroy the Palestinian resistance in Israel's areas B, C in the West Bank and the new name of the Gaza Strip, i.e. areas D, to put an end to the HAMAS government in the Gaza Strip or HAMASLAND, to annex the region to its borders and to disarm Gaza. It demands that this be done without spreading the stain of genocide on American skirts. In this respect, it expects Israel to allow more humanitarian aid, to be careful about civilian casualties, and not to prevent people from returning to places where the operation is said to be 'completed'. Moreover, dear readers, the US expects Israel to provide a road map for Gaza after the war.

Footnotes

(1) Gazete Oksijen, "Iran's retaliatory attack against Israel: What happened minute by minute", 14 April 2024, https://gazeteoksijen.com/dunya/irandan-israile-misilleme-saldirisi-dakika-dakika-yasananlar-208366/ Accessed 14 April 2024/

(2) Fehim Taştekin "Iran'a Saldırı Savaş Nedeni Ve Ama...", Gazete Duvar, 03.04.2024; https://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/irana-saldiri-savas-nedeni-ve-fakat-makale-1681326 /Access Date 06.04.2024/

(3) Mustafa Özcan, "Grand Bargain or Third War", "Hedef Neden Iran", Istanbul, 2008, pp. 132-33